Geeking out in my Hypermedia class

Alright second post on my blog go!  I had to do a project for my Hypermedia in Education class that instructed me to create a personal non-linear digital story using a tool of my choice.  Not gonna write a lot because, as they say, pictures speak some huge number of words.  Each picture has a link on it so try to click 'em!
Click here for my personal digital story.
Please feel free to comment.  The big "So what?" question to me is, how to use this tool to make learning more engaging for students?  I'm not too convinced that having my students watch this would be as effective as when I do it live in the classroom with all kinds of charades and drawing on the whiteboard.  What I'm more interested in is this: Should we have student create presentations using tools like VoiceThread that meet standard course of study goals?

First Post!

As cool as I get.



Hello out there!  I've been reading a lot about blogging and it's rise in popularity as an educational tool so I figured I should try it myself before I subject any of my students to it.  Practice what you preach, right?  I'm in a media literacy graduate program at Appalachian State University and in this class called Hypermedia in Instruction we're reading a book by Will Richardson.  He's big into blogging and getting students blogging.

I have no idea if everyone wants to have a blog or just certain types of people really get into it.  I've always considered myself one to NOT have a blog.  I'm just not very outgoing and I don't really feel like people want to read what's going on in my life/mind.  But anyway, I need to give it a shot and I'm going to try to post things in which I have interest and others may have insight and hopefully we'll all learn something from this.  That's the idea, right?